Michel Cluizel has been making chocolate in the southern Normandy region of France to an exclusively high standard, in the French chocolate making tradition, since 1948. Mendiants are made of nuts, almonds and orange peels on the top of chocolate coins. 63% cocoa dark and 39% cocoa milk chocolate disks with pistachios, almonds, hazelnuts and candied orange peels.

Les Mendiants were "très bon" but not "fantastique." They lacked that magically good aspect of some of his other offerings. The chocolate was good but the nuts were too many and too large. I know this sounds like the man complaining that the steak was too hot and the cherry pie too sweet but sometimes that just may be the case. Especially when the price works out to $2 a Mendiant (before shipping.)